Adrian Barrell

I have an original copy of the reassembly instructions that show all of that.

I assume you would not be able to carry anything other than an abnormal indivisible load however.

Sorry for the delay, I've been away with the Sherman and had no internet access. As you say John, I made my boxes. The rear bin was measured from the Tank Museums Firefly, the turret bin from known measurements on my tank and interpolated measurements from photos. I did make sure the turret bin was big enough (just) to take jerry cans. The rear bin is peculiar to Sherman V, though was occasionally seen on other Shermans. The turret bin is standard to all British Shermans and some other tanks.

It is. It has featured on here before and is the mate to one in store at Bovvy that used to sit outside the entrance.

Rarer than B types but then they always were! There are a few A types in preservation. To elaborate a little, early type A had a plain rear plate, lower on the top edge which was made up to full height with a welded sheet metal extension as per Cromwell. Later rear plates were full height and drilled for fishtails, though the holes were covered with square blanking plates. These may be B type hulls but lacking the external fishtails due to a supply problem presumably. True B type hulls have the external fishtails.

Sherman ARV? Presumably Sherman BARV?

It's an early, A hull Comet which used a Cromwell style rear hull design. That featured internal fishtails that discharged upwards immediately in front of the rear plate. B type hulls used the armoured, external fishtails.

No. 11 is a Centurion not a Chieftain.

Hi Matt, I have a set spare.

I think the S&J stands for Spear and Jackson and they made the doors and flaps.

I think SCC2 is not a popular choice these days.

That first picture looks a bit like the workshops at Panzertruppenschule in Munster, those Comets being the left overs from when we did the one for the Museum.

He hasn't re-listed it at £150, he put it up again at £40 and it's reached £155.

A shame for the person already bidding! Unless they were the one who did a deal........

Chris had Humber A/Cs, never saw any AEC ones. Brussels Tank Museum run one.

Looks like this one had a 77mm gun ex-Comet. Excellent pics, thanks.

The US government paid Chrysler something like $47,000 for an M4A4, this was the most common model in UK service.

Both engines in the 6046 go the same way Andrew.

You might struggle to register it due to it's width.

Well, there you have it Rick, it's easy and I stand corrected. You might need to increase your budget a little and use a Google tape measure.

The problem with a skelly is you have to add a lot of side rail strength and tie those in to the main chassis, that all adds weight. They're also quite high for a tank.

A Cromwell is over 3M wide so not sure what there is to disagree about. Whilst you can carry 24 tons within 44 ton gross, how many low loaders can do that? If you can get it within 44 tons and if it will fit on a 2.55M wide trailer then yes, it will not be STGO. It will need 2 days notification though as it is over width.

The 27 tons is battle weight, Rick's will be nearer 24 but even then it's unlikely you would be within gross weight on that trailer. Cromwell is well over width for notification making it an STGO load anyway with all that entails.

If there was a perfectly legal way of running without submitting to a test, it might be worth it. Particularly if it avoided being tested by somebody like we used to have at Ipswich who would go out of his way to fail you even if it meant making faults up. You really had to know the testers manual to get through. There was also the time the tester, a much more helpful chap, gave me the opportunity to adjust a headlamp beam during the test. He was so helpful in fact, he attempted to do it himself, dislodged the screw and the headlamp fell out and smashed on the ground. ''Oh, I'll have to fail you for that'' he said.......

No, that was my first thought too!